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Pun

  • p. 34 "Sit down, all of you, and listen to me! I'll soon make you dry enough."
  • p. 35 "We will have a Caucus Race!"

Diction
  • p.37 "Telling a tale, in a tail shape tale itself looks like a tail."

Assonance Example: Mad Hatter
  • p.66 "Pig or Fig"
  • p.72 "Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky. Twinkle, twinkly ."
  • p.73 "Their names were Elsie, Lacie, an Tillie."

Alliteration
  • p.70 "It was the best butter."
  • p.40 "Oh my fur ferrets."
  • p. 66 "By-the-bye, what became of the baby?' said the Cat. 'I'd nearly forgotten to ask."

Lexicon
  • p.34 "In that case, I move that the meeting adjourn, for the immediate adoption of more energetic remedies." "Speak English! I don't know the meaning of half those words, and what's more, i don't believe that you do either."

Personification
  • p.68 "Your hair wants cutting"
  • p.71 "I dare say you've never spoken to time."
  • p.71 " 'If you knew Time as well as I do you wouldn't talk about wasting it. Its him"

Syntax
  • p.71 "Why, you might as well say 'I eat what i see,' is i eat what i see."
  • p.59 "For the duchess. An invitation from the queen to play croquet."
  • p.59 "From the Queen. An invitation for the Duchess to play croquet."

Repetition
  • p.72 "Twinkle, twinkle,twinkle, twinkle"